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Subject: Re: A. candidissimum observations
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At 07:26 PM 15/01/2006, you wrote:
>I am a new member to AEG but have been interested in the recent
>discussions so thought I would make some humble comment. Some of my A.
>candidissimum are in flower at the moment, some are finished and some ar=e
>still awakening from dormancy.All have come from the same mother plant. =So
>it appears that dormancy can and does vary depending on growing
>conditions. The plants that have finished flowering were re-potted this

Rick,

Interestingly, I have had the opposite effect with my candidissimum
(all from a single original source).  Mine, be they in the ground or
in pots all surfaced at the same time (within a few days
anyway).  Larger shoots definitely emerge first, and therefore flower
first, with smaller shoots emerging within a couple of weeks
regardless of flowering or not.  The largest of the shoots I find
also have second flowers on them as well, producing a longer
flowering season.  Definitely in my case the soil temperature did not
affect when they shot (far warmer in the pots than in the ground
where they were) and the pot under cover (i.e only watered by hand
not by rain) performed exactly as the others in the ground and in the
rain-watered pots.  If anything IS still awakening within the clump
then they definitely are non-flowering stems as there is only ever a
single flush of flowers which open over the space of a week or 10
days depending on the size of the shoot, then there follows a few
smaller flowers if any of the main shoots choose to have a secondary
flower on them.  That is then it, no flowering at any other time of
the year that I have observed.

I have not yet had any of my seedling candidissimum flower so I
cannot make observations on them as being different clones to the
parent and therefore inheriting different "timing" from their parents
(or not).  I also don't grow any of the other flower forms such as
the pure white ones (unfortunately) so I don't know if they flower at
the same time in my conditions.  I hope that my observations may be
of some small use in the scheme of things.

Other than that...... the last Arisaema to flower for me every year
is currently about 8 inches tall.  It is an A. consanguineum with 4
inch drip tips.  Every year I think I have lost them and every year
they surface a good few weeks after the candidissimums flower.  Nice
to have Arisaemas going to flower in late January each year
though!  It definitely extends the season somewhat.

Cheers.

Paul Tyerman
Canberra, Australia - USDA Zone Equivalent approx. 8/9

Growing an eclectic collection of plants from all over the world
including Aroids, Crocus, Cyclamen, Erythroniums, Fritillarias,
Galanthus, Irises, Trilliums (to name but a few) and just about
anything else that doesn't move!!